Cameron Highlands (27-29/6/13) Day 3

It's Day 3!  Rise and shine to a beautiful sunny day in Cameron Highlands.  We would be going back later that day in the afternoon so everyone was eager to rush out of the apartment and start our third day trip. After checking out, we did not go straight for breakfast.  Instead, we stopped by the oldest hotel of Cameron Highlands, the Ye Olde Smoke House Hotel.

The Ye Olde Smoke House Hotel, though having limited number of rooms compared to other more modern hotels, was still serving travelers to Cameron highlands by providing satisfactory accommodation and hospitality to its customers.

It prides itself with its beautiful garden, which was why we were there that morning.  The hotel building with English Tudor architecture blends perfectly into the surrounding sea of flowers.










A blooming white lily bathed in the morning sunlight.

Dad posing in the garden =)
The hotel served English breakfast and noon tea. Customers can chose to have their meals outside the hotel in the garden.





















Meet Johnny, which I had little doubt is the hotel star.  This 10- year-old dalmatian is as friendly as it gets, or at the very least, not camera shy.  He got all of our attention from the moment we saw him until he left.  My uncle and I were like fans having the rare       chance of taking photographs with our idol!


After a simple breakfast, we went to a place called the Time Tunnel.  The adults did not want to enter, saying that what exhibited there probably had been part of their lives before.  So off went the 4 kiddos into the tunnel for a history class at a price of RM 5 per person.  Well, the name depicted the place accurately.  It indeed had all the criteria fulfilling the definition of a tunnel: long, narrow, dusty, lighted by only dim yellow lights.


                                                                                 
Some of the exhibits: A baby chair, a piano, a cashier machine, some porcelain cutleries in the Chinese community, and the toothpaste showing important transformation of DarKie into DarLie, the face looked fierce

Some serious role play by the barber chair

More serious role play by the chinese chess table

One of those records gotta be Elvis Presley.

A game of mahjong anyone?








After getting out of the Time Tunnel, we continued our journey to the Cactus Point.

A good place to buy some plants for our backyard landscape before going back.


We did remember to buy some souvenirs before starting our journey back.  If you ever come here to Cameron highlands, do remember to try out other strawberries products.  These include:

                                                                                                        The pickled ones
The dried ones

And the processed-into-pastry ones

And that drew an end to our Cameron Highlands trip.  A great place indeed, will certainly come back here in the near future. =)